Should I upgrade to 9.2?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sun Jan 27 14:17:43 UTC 2002


At 01:50 PM 1/26/02, William Stacey wrote:
>Hi Barry,
>What about the 9.2 "slow" resolver issue?  Is that an non-issue in most
>cases?  Also, isn't there some Winsock issue on NT and a 2 second resolver
>delay that is being worked on?

That's on the NT port of BIND 9.  It has nothing to do with the clients.

         Danny

>-- wjs
>
>
>"Barry Margolin" <barmar at genuity.net> wrote in message
>news:a2s0i3$pc3 at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> > In article <a2r4fr$ird at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Hannu  <hannu at nospam.org> wrote:
> > >I am planning to upgrade my sendmail/DNS server OS. I am currently
> > >running Bind 8.2, and it works fine with my RH7.1 system.
> > >The OS I am planning to install (Mandrake 8.1) comes with Bind 9.2. Is
> > >there any reason why not to run Bind 9,2?
> > >My DNS is auth for two C classes, a very busy server for over 1000 users,
> > >web services etc.
> >
> > BIND 8.2 has known security problems, you should upgrade to at least 8.3,
> > and if you're going to upgrade you might as well go all the way to 9.2.
> >
> > --
> > Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> > Genuity, Woburn, MA
> > *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to
>newsgroups.
> > Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the
>group.
> >



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